yeah, I get that, but youtube ad revenue doesn't cover the costs.... You know? It's NOT EVEN CLOSE, so this is the main way I've funded EVERYTHING else. And since I don't take money from the companies making these bikes....
Thanks Kyle for everything you do on this channel. Your clear-cut no-nonsense advice helped me return to riding in my 40s on a bike that was appropriate for me and the terrain where I ride (Husky TE150). Your channel is a valuable asset to You Tube and I hope you'll have continued success.
Dude you're the man. By far one of the top dirt bike TH-cam channels. It's too bad the ad revenue is so terrible these days. Your videos back in the day before the sweepstakes started were my favorite. Hopefully you can keep making content!
Even though I've never won or made the top ten I still feel like a winner. Just having this channel is well worth the minor sum I spend on these giveaways. May you,your family and your channel have a blessed 2025.
First off, thank you so much for using those links. It means more to me than you know. A lot of people have questions about how it works. Essentially, the affiliate link has a tag at the end of the URL (?ref=1017) that gives your browser a tracking "cookie," crediting the purchase to my affiliate ID on Rocky Mountain's side. Then you order as normal using your account. The tricky part is that immediately after the page loads the first time, they reload it and remove that tracking ID from the URL, so you can't see it anymore. Once you've clicked my affiliate links, you can buy any product they sell just as you normally would on any other day. You log into your account and make your purchase per the norm. You are automatically entered into the sweepstakes without having to do anything else. You also won't see any visual indication that you have the cookie for that session (they last for about a day) during your order. They won't give you any confirmation of the entries with the order either. That said, as long as you haven't disabled "cookies" in your browser (most don't know how to do this), you are getting the entries. After the sweepstakes is over, they provide all the data to me and the sweepstakes admins by masking your identity. If you are a finalist, then we get to learn your name. This way, everyone's privacy is protected, and they aren't sharing tons of names with me or the sweepstakes admins needlessly. I hope this helps you understand how things work. Thanks again for your support!
Kyle, Thanks for your passion into this sport. As a business owner I know the struggles of trying to keep this going. I know your passion is still there for dirt bikes and hope you are able to keep that flame going
Just placed an order. I am from the East coast, and I think it would be cool to see more long form riding videos. Maybe a series of videos taking a trip around some states like Idaho, Utah, Washington, etc showcasing the different terrains and riding parks out there. Alot of us never get to see that type of riding. Heck, you could even venture over our way and try out some East coast riding haha. Honestly, I enjoy those types of things more than giveaways, but some more diverse riding videos may bring in more traction for the giveaways. Best of luck!
I call it like I see it. Each time over the past 24 months it's touch and go. I've never misled anyone. Would you rather they just stop with zero explanation? Serious question.
@@DirtBikeChannel it's just you say this every time and it feels like a sales pitch. I think you said you were done after the 250 giveaway then a month or so later, another sweepstakes. Honestly I think it's run it's course and I feel your content was a lot better when you did it for the love of riding not because you need it to pay the bills. I'd rater see you go back to doing this on the side and watch your rides and reviews instead of videos that feel like you just need to put out content to plug the sweepstakes. You could still get enough views to make some money on the ad revenue and you might be happier just riding for fun again. Just my opinion.
That's because he has to make enough money in order to break even or make a little bit on the give aways. In my opinion, he's not making much if any. He also has no clue if he will make break even enough to do other give aways. These are high end bikes. Someone is going to be blessed with it. They cost anywhere between $9,500-$1400 USC. With the economy how it is I can't believe he's still doing this. Is pretty dang generous. Keep it up man! You're doin great
@@cdnmoto849 Been watching Kyle for years and this statement is spot on. Just seems like the love for riding is gone and has changed of the last couple of years.
Open it to some international countries. I know for instance there are shipping companies that ship to Australia at reasonable prices. I would enter knowing I'd have to pay my own shipping. Coolhand Luke is one company that ships bikes regularly to Australia.
Honestly! I think most people are here for the content, not to win a motorcycle. Get back to making great videos & don't worry about giving bikes away! Get people watching your videos again. Great videos when your doing your thing!
I totally understand where your coming from, business is business. Although im not in every sweepstakes i've been following for years now and give you props for what you do for us enthusiasts. Some of us couldn't possibly afford something like what your give away bikes are. Getting started later in life how you did into riding then your progression, like i said, props Kyle, Happy New Year to you and your family. I started riding in the early 80's when I was a kid and these bikes now are pretty sweet. Thanks for the opportunity to own something new. God Bless....
Great job Kyle! Please keep doing what your doing not just a bike giveaway but your content. I love it you speak from your heart. Don't listen to any negative comments. Happy New Year Brother!!
I bought the Tusk tool box and I love it thanks for the tip. Yes I used your link to RMATV Worked on my Tenere yesterday and the box had every tool I needed.
Keep the content about bikes and gear. I miss that part of your channel. I kinda stopped listening due to the lack of podcasts etc. I don’t care about the sweepstakes. Just want old DBC back.
So you give away the bikes to earn revenue, yet you don’t make enough revenue to continue giving them away. Math isn’t mathing. Just make dirt bike content. Aren’t you rebuilding a bike for your kid? You haven’t put out a single video on that……
What you do is awesome kyle. Sweep stakes are a real thoughtful way of getting people into the sport. I live in the UK so I can't apply myself. Good luck to everyone who has entered it.
hey Kyle... sad to say that the shipping rates that Rocky Mountain recently switched to are 6 times what they were a few months ago. something bad has happened over there on some management level and now they just lost we Alaskan shoppers. i even went back and pretended to reorder past items to compare and sure enough, it's gone crazy. for example, shipping on one pair of goggles is $110.00 when it was $22. i had what i wanted - ready to check out yesterday to get in on your drawing, and the shipping came to $340 for 2 goggles and 2 sets of gloves, so i had to cancel that. bummer! it's not the actual rates... its a new RM policy. i called RM and asked them to investigate with their upline as to what happened... and warned them that they've likely lost the Alaskan clients. using USPS, they could stuff a large flat-rate box for only $26.00 to Alaska, so this is a real shame. has anyone else noticed a jump in RM shipping cost where you live in the contiguous USA???
48 rode since 4 raced since 7 My dad raced AHRMA until he was 81. My son is 4 and already races…. Never stop. This is in your blood. The bike give away is just icing. Keep going with everything else
Man, I have your shirts, socks, duffle bag, camp chairs and even your power valve cover on my 300xc. I'll keep buying when I can. Hope you're sticking around another 10 years, Kyle.
Instead of doing these overly priced $13,500 bikes do a cheaper bike and “build” it then give it away. Every single channel is just over priced shit and nothing but adds. If it’s that tight then change it up. Most of us are here for the content and the giveaways are just a bonus. Don’t mean to be a dick but the channel has been a sob story lately and every video is just you on the brink of being ready to quit. Makes it hard to watch. Understand a guy going through shit but that’s not what any original viewer is here for. Were here for content and wether it’s a $14,000 bike or a $3,000 bike with $2,000 into it but way more content on said bike I feel would do way more but what do I know.
Try a giveaway for a Honda CRF110 or a couple 50cc bikes. I really think it would rejuvenate these giveaways. I’ve been with you since 2014, you’re a big reason I got back into riding and I’ll still be with you if these giveaways end. I’m sure you’ll figure out a way to transition or diversify, you have a ton of potential even if you don’t see it right now.
I tried it with a kids bike. It was a major flop..... And then the guy who won the bike didn't even want it. He took the cash value... So then I had to sell the bike on the private market, haha!
If you can make a membership worth it, I’d be interested. Exclusive content, access to you, discounts on products from your site, trail escorts, whatever else you can dream up.
I always RM order but never get any confirmation that I’m entered…like I didn’t when I ordered just now. I use the link but it doesn’t seem to track. I wonder if that’s an issue with people wanting to enter.
First off, thank you so much for using those links. It means more to me than you know. A lot of people have questions about how it works. Essentially, the affiliate link has a tag at the end of the URL (?ref=1017) that gives your browser a tracking "cookie," crediting the purchase to my affiliate ID on Rocky Mountain's side. Then you order as normal using your account. The tricky part is that immediately after the page loads the first time, they reload it and remove that tracking ID from the URL, so you can't see it anymore. Once you've clicked my affiliate links, you can buy any product they sell just as you normally would on any other day. You log into your account and make your purchase per the norm. You are automatically entered into the sweepstakes without having to do anything else. You also won't see any visual indication that you have the cookie for that session (they last for about a day) during your order. They won't give you any confirmation of the entries with the order either. That said, as long as you haven't disabled "cookies" in your browser (most don't know how to do this), you are getting the entries. After the sweepstakes is over, they provide all the data to me and the sweepstakes admins by masking your identity. If you are a finalist, then we get to learn your name. This way, everyone's privacy is protected, and they aren't sharing tons of names with me or the sweepstakes admins needlessly. I hope this helps you understand how things work. Thanks again for your support!
@ thanks man! Maybe it might help some feel better about their link purchases when they read that. I’m excited to meet you when I pick that bike up! 🤣 happy new year! Here’s to a better year for all🍻
a lot of us worried if it was working years ago. for me i just called RM and asked if my orders were linked and sure enough they were... so i stopped worrying. its all in the technology - its fully auto anyway.
I think it's cool that you do this but like millions of weekend warriors I know I'll never have the skills to safely utilize the power in a race ready 300. Now a 125, 150 or 175 I would enter. Plus, there is nobody out there reviewing and demonstrating trail skills on those size machines
I really appreciate your support and wanting to enter the sweepstakes. The issue with International entries is two fold, but mostly it is politics, border export fees, taxes, and red tape. 1. The shipping of the merchandise is very expensive. Based off of my channel demographics, Australia, and Canada would make the most sense to open up international shipping to after the USA market. With my fulfillment company, it will cost me $55-$65 per shirt/item. Some items are even more. I did a trial run on Canadian orders in Late 2019, people were not willing to pay that much. I actually tested shipping shirts to Canada in late 2019 and had less than 10 orders. I ended up losing money on those orders as far as I could tell. Many of them got stuck in customs and I spend a ton of time trying to get them out. 2. Awarding a valuable prize across international borders is a nightmare than my accountant and attorneys tell me I won’t be able to do. Even a large company like Rocky Mountain ATV/MC (multi-million dollar company near me) nearly "lost their shirts" on awarding a dirt bike to a Canadian Resident in 2018 during its sweepstakes connected to the Fantasy Super-cross they put on. It took them (with multiple full time employees) the better part of a year to navigate the red tape in getting the bike across the border (which ultimately failed) as a prize. I have even spoken to the winner of that sweepstakes multiple times (Canadian Resident) because he reached out to me with questions about what he should do, and he has validated the MASSIVE headache it was to get that bike awarded to him, due to the international border crossing. In the end, the bike could not be approved to cross the US/Canadian border, so Rocky Mountain ATV had to strip the parts they installed off their grand prize dirt bike, buy another dirt bike in Canada from a Canadian Dealer, ship the parts/upgraded items over the border, and then install all the parts on the second bike. It was an astronomical headache. It was a massive undertaking that I simply can’t get involved with. I don’t have the resources for it, and it would sink my small enterprise. I hope that helps shed some light on why I can only offer this to residents of the USA. Thank you for understanding.
Love your channel and a vlame you for the reason there is a ktm300 in my garage but i cant hard stand to watch anymore. Its like an endless pityy party these days man youve got to find some give a shit about life again. Your enthusiasm is there anymore and feel that and its reflecting in your giveaways. First one in a while i havent entered. Hope you can get it back and make great content and giveaways again.
Could we have your thoughts on KTMs crisis on a DBC podcast? Maybe there's not much that hasn't been said but your perspective and rambling is why I like the channel. I think a lot of people would listen to that...
@ well they all seem great lately I have 2 24 TX 300 and FX 350 two stokes seem easier to work on and I like mixing gas and no oil injection.. I’d say definitely a two stroke husky or ktm
Your a big reason why i bought my 300 ktm tpi in 2020. Love the platform. Ive now done multiple races, been in multiple states. Ill blame it on you today. 😂 😂😂
No one ships for free.🙄 Purchasers are paying for the shipping through the cost of the product. But whatever. I think what you are and have been doing is AWESOME! I don't know how the numbers add up but, it apparently can and does work in you favor. I would like to see you making BIG profits in doing this so, GOOD LUCK.👊🏼 AND THANK YOU.
I feel for you Kyle. You cant please everyone. I am surprised you still make it feasible to do the sweepstakes. Paying $12k+ for a bike is hard to swallow for any of us and you have the pressure to sell enough to cover. For myself, I appreciate your how to videos and product reviews the best. Its seems like you may be leaning toward a new direction. You should go for it and do How-To and product reviews for Enduro as a sode hustle. Way more clicks on those and frees up your time. Only throwing it out there because you do it well. 👍
After your review on the Stark it may be time to hang it up. After eight rides on the MX Alpha its hard to get on the gas bikes. (TE300 and FE501s) Just saying......Best of luck to you in your future bro!
Hey mate thanks for the content, I have been watching your channel pretty much from the start. I hope you continue to put out great content and reviews. Not that I can enter but I enjoyed the CR250 build and giveaway than any other. Thank you and I wish you the family happy new year and hopefully 2025 will be nothing but growth and happiness 👍
@ it’s no different than playing the lottery…a total waste of money and financial sense hoping you “win” a bike by spending money on something to enter to win it. Poor people stay poor. This is why.
@@chadrides914 if they are buying stuff they don't need, then i get that. i been getting stuff from RM that i was gonna get anyway, but it goes into the drawing. no harm in that. you do know people can enter "for free" by mailing in post cards right. at least one of the winners won that way too.
No offense man. Your website isn’t to the level for giveaways. I know the rm link gets included but you really don’t have anything on your website. Let the cash grabbing channels do giveaways
I've really thoroughly enjoyed your channel it's influenced on some bike choices my newest one a yz250x. it blew a crank bearing and I un-knowingly bought someone else's problem bike for 4k spent 2k getting it back up to par.. hope this thing is worth it.
I can't take part since I live in Switzerland, but if I'd live in US, I would be in. I've seen your videos since the begin, so I believe you what you say and your several times about beeing the last give away perhaps if it doesn't pay out anymore. Let me say one thing: you should think perhaps on a different aproach, cause I feel a little bit, that your "fire" burns lower than in earlier Years. Perhaps you could concentrate to let the bikes be testet by several riders, combined with cool group riding content? You know not only seeing Kyle riding the bike and talking alone. I am sure a lot of us would like to ride with you. There could be also a good and stable business to make some guided tours. Greets
The main thing like I said in my other comment is that 30-40 dollars might be too expensive for some people especially in this economy. If you sold something like let’s say a pack of stickers or some small dirt bike accessories for $5-15 dollars a lot more people would be willing to pay that just to enter the giveaway and get a little something even if they don’t win.
I bought the check list for $5. Did i need it? No! Just something to drop a few dollars on to help keep this going. Thats something as us the community can do to help put this bike in the hands of someone who needs it.
Despite the wife's wishes(considering her family is impoverished in a 3rd world country and threatened by an impending tsunami), I decided to throw you some support again. May God strengthen.
Need to start making more vlog style content and show off all the sick places you ride. Maybe reach out to some other creators and try to make some stuff together.
Open it to some international countries. I know for instance there are shipping companies that ship to Australia at reasonable prices. I would enter knowing I'd have to pay my own shipping. Coolhand Luke is one company that ships bikes regularly to
I think you need to diversify how you can make money a little bit more. I’ve learned the hard way it’s not good to only have one source of income, especially if that source of income isn’t stable. Also, I was looking at how to enter the giveaways and a lot of the stuff you’d need to buy costs $30-40 dollars for entries and not everyone is able to afford that. If you made more $5-10 options available you might draw more people
First off, thank you so much for using those links. It means more to me than you know. A lot of people have questions about how it works. Essentially, the affiliate link has a tag at the end of the URL (?ref=1017) that gives your browser a tracking "cookie," crediting the purchase to my affiliate ID on Rocky Mountain's side. Then you order as normal using your account. The tricky part is that immediately after the page loads the first time, they reload it and remove that tracking ID from the URL, so you can't see it anymore. Once you've clicked my affiliate links, you can buy any product they sell just as you normally would on any other day. You log into your account and make your purchase per the norm. You are automatically entered into the sweepstakes without having to do anything else. You also won't see any visual indication that you have the cookie for that session (they last for about a day) during your order. They won't give you any confirmation of the entries with the order either. That said, as long as you haven't disabled "cookies" in your browser (most don't know how to do this), you are getting the entries. After the sweepstakes is over, they provide all the data to me and the sweepstakes admins by masking your identity. If you are a finalist, then we get to learn your name. This way, everyone's privacy is protected, and they aren't sharing tons of names with me or the sweepstakes admins needlessly. I hope this helps you understand how things work. Thanks again for your support!
Your riding content sucks!! I don’t even think you actually ride very much, Maybe consider traveling like PNW enduro does and actually go ride and film content.
ya missed the golden years of the content man. life has been rocky for Kyle this past couple years... just be happy he has not quit the channel. who else has given away bikes every three months for ten years?... oh that's right, no one.
@ I have been watching him since he started, I like the channel but how can people take him serious on product reviews and bike reviews when he hardly rides and films content on riding.
@@Dirtbeaver well i'm happy way more people tune in to get your channel's excellent and positive content... what is it then, half a million subs you have?
Have a few tuber friends who do car channels. 250-500k subs. The add revenue isn’t what it used to be. Or all the other hoops they want channels to jump through.
Dang, wish I knew I could buy anything isi g your link from RMATV. I just bought a few hundred dollars worth of stuff. Anyhow, good luck to everyone in the drawing!!!
I really appreciate your support and wanting to enter the sweepstakes. The issue with International entries is two fold, but mostly it is politics, border export fees, taxes, and red tape. 1. The shipping of the merchandise is very expensive. Based off of my channel demographics, Australia, and Canada would make the most sense to open up international shipping to after the USA market. With my fulfillment company, it will cost me $55-$65 per shirt/item. Some items are even more. I did a trial run on Canadian orders in Late 2019, people were not willing to pay that much. I actually tested shipping shirts to Canada in late 2019 and had less than 10 orders. I ended up losing money on those orders as far as I could tell. Many of them got stuck in customs and I spend a ton of time trying to get them out. 2. Awarding a valuable prize across international borders is a nightmare than my accountant and attorneys tell me I won’t be able to do. Even a large company like Rocky Mountain ATV/MC (multi-million dollar company near me) nearly "lost their shirts" on awarding a dirt bike to a Canadian Resident in 2018 during its sweepstakes connected to the Fantasy Super-cross they put on. It took them (with multiple full time employees) the better part of a year to navigate the red tape in getting the bike across the border (which ultimately failed) as a prize. I have even spoken to the winner of that sweepstakes multiple times (Canadian Resident) because he reached out to me with questions about what he should do, and he has validated the MASSIVE headache it was to get that bike awarded to him, due to the international border crossing. In the end, the bike could not be approved to cross the US/Canadian border, so Rocky Mountain ATV had to strip the parts they installed off their grand prize dirt bike, buy another dirt bike in Canada from a Canadian Dealer, ship the parts/upgraded items over the border, and then install all the parts on the second bike. It was an astronomical headache. It was a massive undertaking that I simply can’t get involved with. I don’t have the resources for it, and it would sink my small enterprise. I hope that helps shed some light on why I can only offer this to residents of the USA. Thank you for understanding.
Haha! I'm sorry. Many of the people in CA are great. The politics aren't. Its the least free state in the USA. I couldn't live there. I've had family there for the past 20 years and I can't believe the BS restrictions. The sweepstakes are a huge part of the Funding for the channel, since I don't take money from the OEMs or industry.
Man the economy sucks right now everybody's struggling it's just one of those things I've been self-employed for 30 freaking years it's a bad winter it'll get better
If KTM /Husky go out of business maybe Kyle can review some other bikes for a change. The channel lost me a long time ago. Most people cant drop 13 k on a new bike every year.
Maybe just time to giveaway a different brand, KTM group reputation is bad… really bad. I bet if you put up a Kawi, it would cost you less and more people would be motivated to enter. Kawi has figured out a formula to make great production bikes at a good price.
Just a randoms 2 cents here, I come to the channel for content not giveaways. Keep the content about bikes, gear, and your rides coming.
yeah, I get that, but youtube ad revenue doesn't cover the costs.... You know? It's NOT EVEN CLOSE, so this is the main way I've funded EVERYTHING else. And since I don't take money from the companies making these bikes....
@@DirtBikeChannelwell you have business experience now. What’s stopping you from doing another business or expanding upon this one
For real this dudes been schlepping raffles and the content has slipped so bad I can’t even handle it.
@@DirtBikeChannelstart doing ads the majority of people don’t mind an ad. V
@@chadrides914me too…..channel sucks…yet I still watch…lol. Just hoping for some original content.
Thanks Kyle for everything you do on this channel. Your clear-cut no-nonsense advice helped me return to riding in my 40s on a bike that was appropriate for me and the terrain where I ride (Husky TE150). Your channel is a valuable asset to You Tube and I hope you'll have continued success.
I appreciate that! I'll likely switch things up soon and go to part time with this at some point in 2025
Dude you're the man. By far one of the top dirt bike TH-cam channels. It's too bad the ad revenue is so terrible these days. Your videos back in the day before the sweepstakes started were my favorite. Hopefully you can keep making content!
Even though I've never won or made the top ten I still feel like a winner. Just having this channel is well worth the minor sum I spend on these giveaways. May you,your family and your channel have a blessed 2025.
Placed a Rocky Mountain order last night for you. Absolutely love your content! In my opinion you’re the best channel for off road content
First off, thank you so much for using those links. It means more to me than you know. A lot of people have questions about how it works. Essentially, the affiliate link has a tag at the end of the URL (?ref=1017) that gives your browser a tracking "cookie," crediting the purchase to my affiliate ID on Rocky Mountain's side. Then you order as normal using your account. The tricky part is that immediately after the page loads the first time, they reload it and remove that tracking ID from the URL, so you can't see it anymore.
Once you've clicked my affiliate links, you can buy any product they sell just as you normally would on any other day. You log into your account and make your purchase per the norm. You are automatically entered into the sweepstakes without having to do anything else.
You also won't see any visual indication that you have the cookie for that session (they last for about a day) during your order. They won't give you any confirmation of the entries with the order either. That said, as long as you haven't disabled "cookies" in your browser (most don't know how to do this), you are getting the entries.
After the sweepstakes is over, they provide all the data to me and the sweepstakes admins by masking your identity. If you are a finalist, then we get to learn your name. This way, everyone's privacy is protected, and they aren't sharing tons of names with me or the sweepstakes admins needlessly.
I hope this helps you understand how things work. Thanks again for your support!
Kyle,
Thanks for your passion into this sport. As a business owner I know the struggles of trying to keep this going. I know your passion is still there for dirt bikes and hope you are able to keep that flame going
Just placed an order.
I am from the East coast, and I think it would be cool to see more long form riding videos. Maybe a series of videos taking a trip around some states like Idaho, Utah, Washington, etc showcasing the different terrains and riding parks out there. Alot of us never get to see that type of riding. Heck, you could even venture over our way and try out some East coast riding haha. Honestly, I enjoy those types of things more than giveaways, but some more diverse riding videos may bring in more traction for the giveaways.
Best of luck!
Man you can't stop the give aways now! You've been doing it for 10 years! I know it must not be easy but keep it up! God Bless.
I likely won't have a choice, though. 2025 may be the year I go back to part time on DBC and do something else to pay the bills.
I remember watching way back then because I got a 2016 exc f . CONGRATS ON THE 10 years and thank you for all the content and sticking with it
Make a video about ktm's financial problems.
why? everybody knows
Question, how many "last giveaways" are there? We are on like 7 or 8 now LOL. See you on the next sweepstakes in 2-3 months! 🤣
I call it like I see it. Each time over the past 24 months it's touch and go. I've never misled anyone. Would you rather they just stop with zero explanation? Serious question.
@@DirtBikeChannel it's just you say this every time and it feels like a sales pitch. I think you said you were done after the 250 giveaway then a month or so later, another sweepstakes. Honestly I think it's run it's course and I feel your content was a lot better when you did it for the love of riding not because you need it to pay the bills. I'd rater see you go back to doing this on the side and watch your rides and reviews instead of videos that feel like you just need to put out content to plug the sweepstakes. You could still get enough views to make some money on the ad revenue and you might be happier just riding for fun again. Just my opinion.
That's because he has to make enough money in order to break even or make a little bit on the give aways. In my opinion, he's not making much if any. He also has no clue if he will make break even enough to do other give aways. These are high end bikes. Someone is going to be blessed with it. They cost anywhere between $9,500-$1400 USC. With the economy how it is I can't believe he's still doing this. Is pretty dang generous. Keep it up man! You're doin great
@@cdnmoto849 Been watching Kyle for years and this statement is spot on. Just seems like the love for riding is gone and has changed of the last couple of years.
Open it to some international countries.
I know for instance there are shipping companies that ship to Australia at reasonable prices. I would enter knowing I'd have to pay my own shipping.
Coolhand Luke is one company that ships bikes regularly to Australia.
Honestly! I think most people are here for the content, not to win a motorcycle. Get back to making great videos & don't worry about giving bikes away! Get people watching your videos again. Great videos when your doing your thing!
Shirts are legit... wearing one now. Keep grinding, Kyle... cheers
I'm wearing one too! Thanks brother!
You're the man keep up the hard work 2025 is gonna be better than the last 4 years in 1 year
Hope the big "T" can pull us out of the "S" that the CLOWN "B" put us in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, right .. !!!
I totally understand where your coming from, business is business. Although im not in every sweepstakes i've been following for years now and give you props for what you do for us enthusiasts. Some of us couldn't possibly afford something like what your give away bikes are. Getting started later in life how you did into riding then your progression, like i said, props Kyle, Happy New Year to you and your family. I started riding in the early 80's when I was a kid and these bikes now are pretty sweet. Thanks for the opportunity to own something new. God Bless....
Great job Kyle! Please keep doing what your doing not just a bike giveaway but your content. I love it you speak from your heart. Don't listen to any negative comments. Happy New Year Brother!!
I bought the Tusk tool box and I love it thanks for the tip. Yes I used your link to RMATV
Worked on my Tenere yesterday and the box had every tool I needed.
And every tool box configuration is out of stock. I had one in my cart. So were they all bought, or did they pull them for some reason?
Keep the content about bikes and gear. I miss that part of your channel.
I kinda stopped listening due to the lack of podcasts etc. I don’t care about the sweepstakes. Just want old DBC back.
So you give away the bikes to earn revenue, yet you don’t make enough revenue to continue giving them away. Math isn’t mathing. Just make dirt bike content. Aren’t you rebuilding a bike for your kid? You haven’t put out a single video on that……
What you do is awesome kyle. Sweep stakes are a real thoughtful way of getting people into the sport. I live in the UK so I can't apply myself. Good luck to everyone who has entered it.
hey Kyle... sad to say that the shipping rates that Rocky Mountain recently switched to are 6 times what they were a few months ago. something bad has happened over there on some management level and now they just lost we Alaskan shoppers.
i even went back and pretended to reorder past items to compare and sure enough, it's gone crazy. for example, shipping on one pair of goggles is $110.00 when it was $22. i had what i wanted - ready to check out yesterday to get in on your drawing, and the shipping came to $340 for 2 goggles and 2 sets of gloves, so i had to cancel that. bummer! it's not the actual rates... its a new RM policy.
i called RM and asked them to investigate with their upline as to what happened... and warned them that they've likely lost the Alaskan clients. using USPS, they could stuff a large flat-rate box for only $26.00 to Alaska, so this is a real shame.
has anyone else noticed a jump in RM shipping cost where you live in the contiguous USA???
You should give away that Tusk toolbox as a runner up prize! 🤙🏻
That's an awesome bike! Your cool Kyle. I'm glad I found your website.
48 rode since 4 raced since 7 My dad raced AHRMA until he was 81. My son is 4 and already races…. Never stop. This is in your blood. The bike give away is just icing. Keep going with everything else
Man, I have your shirts, socks, duffle bag, camp chairs and even your power valve cover on my 300xc. I'll keep buying when I can. Hope you're sticking around another 10 years, Kyle.
Move on buddy. Content has gone downhill and has the used car dealer, sell out vibe for the past 24-36 months.
Instead of doing these overly priced $13,500 bikes do a cheaper bike and “build” it then give it away. Every single channel is just over priced shit and nothing but adds. If it’s that tight then change it up. Most of us are here for the content and the giveaways are just a bonus. Don’t mean to be a dick but the channel has been a sob story lately and every video is just you on the brink of being ready to quit. Makes it hard to watch. Understand a guy going through shit but that’s not what any original viewer is here for. Were here for content and wether it’s a $14,000 bike or a $3,000 bike with $2,000 into it but way more content on said bike I feel would do way more but what do I know.
Thanks bigdawg for the content and what you do giving these bikes away! Awesome!
Try a giveaway for a Honda CRF110 or a couple 50cc bikes. I really think it would rejuvenate these giveaways. I’ve been with you since 2014, you’re a big reason I got back into riding and I’ll still be with you if these giveaways end. I’m sure you’ll figure out a way to transition or diversify, you have a ton of potential even if you don’t see it right now.
I tried it with a kids bike. It was a major flop..... And then the guy who won the bike didn't even want it. He took the cash value... So then I had to sell the bike on the private market, haha!
Didn't you just say the same thing a couple years ago?
Got my order in. Thanks for the opportunity Kyle.
If you can make a membership worth it, I’d be interested. Exclusive content, access to you, discounts on products from your site, trail escorts, whatever else you can dream up.
Interesting idea. Not sure I have the drive for that at the moment.... But a good idea.
"Do hard things" @@DirtBikeChannel
I always RM order but never get any confirmation that I’m entered…like I didn’t when I ordered just now. I use the link but it doesn’t seem to track. I wonder if that’s an issue with people wanting to enter.
First off, thank you so much for using those links. It means more to me than you know. A lot of people have questions about how it works. Essentially, the affiliate link has a tag at the end of the URL (?ref=1017) that gives your browser a tracking "cookie," crediting the purchase to my affiliate ID on Rocky Mountain's side. Then you order as normal using your account. The tricky part is that immediately after the page loads the first time, they reload it and remove that tracking ID from the URL, so you can't see it anymore.
Once you've clicked my affiliate links, you can buy any product they sell just as you normally would on any other day. You log into your account and make your purchase per the norm. You are automatically entered into the sweepstakes without having to do anything else.
You also won't see any visual indication that you have the cookie for that session (they last for about a day) during your order. They won't give you any confirmation of the entries with the order either. That said, as long as you haven't disabled "cookies" in your browser (most don't know how to do this), you are getting the entries.
After the sweepstakes is over, they provide all the data to me and the sweepstakes admins by masking your identity. If you are a finalist, then we get to learn your name. This way, everyone's privacy is protected, and they aren't sharing tons of names with me or the sweepstakes admins needlessly.
I hope this helps you understand how things work. Thanks again for your support!
@ thanks man! Maybe it might help some feel better about their link purchases when they read that. I’m excited to meet you when I pick that bike up! 🤣 happy new year! Here’s to a better year for all🍻
a lot of us worried if it was working years ago. for me i just called RM and asked if my orders were linked and sure enough they were... so i stopped worrying. its all in the technology - its fully auto anyway.
I think it's cool that you do this but like millions of weekend warriors I know I'll never have the skills to safely utilize the power in a race ready 300. Now a 125, 150 or 175 I would enter. Plus, there is nobody out there reviewing and demonstrating trail skills on those size machines
300s are easier to ride than a small bore bc you can lug them.
Thanks for everything you do!!!
Can people in Canada enter??
I really appreciate your support and wanting to enter the sweepstakes. The issue with International entries is two fold, but mostly it is politics, border export fees, taxes, and red tape.
1. The shipping of the merchandise is very expensive. Based off of my channel demographics, Australia, and Canada would make the most sense to open up international shipping to after the USA market. With my fulfillment company, it will cost me $55-$65 per shirt/item. Some items are even more. I did a trial run on Canadian orders in Late 2019, people were not willing to pay that much. I actually tested shipping shirts to Canada in late 2019 and had less than 10 orders. I ended up losing money on those orders as far as I could tell. Many of them got stuck in customs and I spend a ton of time trying to get them out.
2. Awarding a valuable prize across international borders is a nightmare than my accountant and attorneys tell me I won’t be able to do. Even a large company like Rocky Mountain ATV/MC (multi-million dollar company near me) nearly "lost their shirts" on awarding a dirt bike to a Canadian Resident in 2018 during its sweepstakes connected to the Fantasy Super-cross they put on. It took them (with multiple full time employees) the better part of a year to navigate the red tape in getting the bike across the border (which ultimately failed) as a prize. I have even spoken to the winner of that sweepstakes multiple times (Canadian Resident) because he reached out to me with questions about what he should do, and he has validated the MASSIVE headache it was to get that bike awarded to him, due to the international border crossing. In the end, the bike could not be approved to cross the US/Canadian border, so Rocky Mountain ATV had to strip the parts they installed off their grand prize dirt bike, buy another dirt bike in Canada from a Canadian Dealer, ship the parts/upgraded items over the border, and then install all the parts on the second bike. It was an astronomical headache. It was a massive undertaking that I simply can’t get involved with. I don’t have the resources for it, and it would sink my small enterprise.
I hope that helps shed some light on why I can only offer this to residents of the USA. Thank you for understanding.
Love your channel and a vlame you for the reason there is a ktm300 in my garage but i cant hard stand to watch anymore. Its like an endless pityy party these days man youve got to find some give a shit about life again. Your enthusiasm is there anymore and feel that and its reflecting in your giveaways. First one in a while i havent entered. Hope you can get it back and make great content and giveaways again.
Could we have your thoughts on KTMs crisis on a DBC podcast? Maybe there's not much that hasn't been said but your perspective and rambling is why I like the channel. I think a lot of people would listen to that...
What bike are you getting next?
Unclear at this point. Suggestions?
@ well they all seem great lately I have 2 24 TX 300 and FX 350 two stokes seem easier to work on and I like mixing gas and no oil injection.. I’d say definitely a two stroke husky or ktm
Your a big reason why i bought my 300 ktm tpi in 2020. Love the platform. Ive now done multiple races, been in multiple states. Ill blame it on you today. 😂 😂😂
Just made a Rocky Mountain order with the link!
Thank you!
My "New" bike batter have a nice coat of SC1 upon delivery Kyle. Keep up the great work and Ill stick around giveaways or not.
Thank you!
No one ships for free.🙄 Purchasers are paying for the shipping through the cost of the product. But whatever.
I think what you are and have been doing is AWESOME! I don't know how the numbers add up but, it apparently
can and does work in you favor. I would like to see you making BIG profits in doing this so, GOOD LUCK.👊🏼
AND THANK YOU.
Well said. There is NO free shipping. But consumers "think" there is....
I feel for you Kyle. You cant please everyone. I am surprised you still make it feasible to do the sweepstakes. Paying $12k+ for a bike is hard to swallow for any of us and you have the pressure to sell enough to cover. For myself, I appreciate your how to videos and product reviews the best. Its seems like you may be leaning toward a new direction. You should go for it and do How-To and product reviews for Enduro as a sode hustle. Way more clicks on those and frees up your time. Only throwing it out there because you do it well. 👍
After your review on the Stark it may be time to hang it up. After eight rides on the MX Alpha its hard to get on the gas bikes. (TE300 and FE501s) Just saying......Best of luck to you in your future bro!
Hey mate thanks for the content, I have been watching your channel pretty much from the start. I hope you continue to put out great content and reviews. Not that I can enter but I enjoyed the CR250 build and giveaway than any other. Thank you and I wish you the family happy new year and hopefully 2025 will be nothing but growth and happiness 👍
Hope this works out for you Kyle. Still riding and racing the KTM I won in 2021.
that's cool to hear!
You’re not giving anyone a 13,000 bike. You’re making a business off of schleppjng tickets. Stop gas lighting us dude.
the people who won the bikes only know and care that they won a new bike. ya can't knock that.
@ it’s no different than playing the lottery…a total waste of money and financial sense hoping you “win” a bike by spending money on something to enter to win it. Poor people stay poor. This is why.
@@chadrides914 if they are buying stuff they don't need, then i get that. i been getting stuff from RM that i was gonna get anyway, but it goes into the drawing. no harm in that.
you do know people can enter "for free" by mailing in post cards right. at least one of the winners won that way too.
Happy new year Kyle 👍
No offense man. Your website isn’t to the level for giveaways. I know the rm link gets included but you really don’t have anything on your website. Let the cash grabbing channels do giveaways
I've really thoroughly enjoyed your channel it's influenced on some bike choices my newest one a yz250x. it blew a crank bearing and I un-knowingly bought someone else's problem bike for 4k spent 2k getting it back up to par.. hope this thing is worth it.
I can't take part since I live in Switzerland, but if I'd live in US, I would be in. I've seen your videos since the begin, so I believe you what you say and your several times about beeing the last give away perhaps if it doesn't pay out anymore. Let me say one thing: you should think perhaps on a different aproach, cause I feel a little bit, that your "fire" burns lower than in earlier Years. Perhaps you could concentrate to let the bikes be testet by several riders, combined with cool group riding content? You know not only seeing Kyle riding the bike and talking alone. I am sure a lot of us would like to ride with you. There could be also a good and stable business to make some guided tours.
Greets
The main thing like I said in my other comment is that 30-40 dollars might be too expensive for some people especially in this economy. If you sold something like let’s say a pack of stickers or some small dirt bike accessories for $5-15 dollars a lot more people would be willing to pay that just to enter the giveaway and get a little something even if they don’t win.
I bought the check list for $5. Did i need it? No! Just something to drop a few dollars on to help keep this going. Thats something as us the community can do to help put this bike in the hands of someone who needs it.
Kind of weird how we cant see how many points we have.
Despite the wife's wishes(considering her family is impoverished in a 3rd world country and threatened by an impending tsunami), I decided to throw you some support again. May God strengthen.
Stop letting your wife guilt trip you over something that may or may not happen.... Put some fking pants on.
Hopefully it's not the last one.
love your channel
I’d love to win that
Need to start making more vlog style content and show off all the sick places you ride. Maybe reach out to some other creators and try to make some stuff together.
Wheels Through Time does a raffle every year to win a classic Harley (+$60k value). You have to buy tickets to win the bike, no merch required.
Open it to some international countries.
I know for instance there are shipping companies that ship to Australia at reasonable prices. I would enter knowing I'd have to pay my own shipping.
Coolhand Luke is one company that ships bikes regularly to
ordered a water bottle off RMATV last night thru the link!
I hope you continue with the content even if you stop with the merch and give-a-ways.
I think you need to diversify how you can make money a little bit more. I’ve learned the hard way it’s not good to only have one source of income, especially if that source of income isn’t stable. Also, I was looking at how to enter the giveaways and a lot of the stuff you’d need to buy costs $30-40 dollars for entries and not everyone is able to afford that. If you made more $5-10 options available you might draw more people
I don't think RMATV always applies the credit... I asked them, they can't confirm if any of my orders got credit.
Did you use his link?
First off, thank you so much for using those links. It means more to me than you know. A lot of people have questions about how it works. Essentially, the affiliate link has a tag at the end of the URL (?ref=1017) that gives your browser a tracking "cookie," crediting the purchase to my affiliate ID on Rocky Mountain's side. Then you order as normal using your account. The tricky part is that immediately after the page loads the first time, they reload it and remove that tracking ID from the URL, so you can't see it anymore.
Once you've clicked my affiliate links, you can buy any product they sell just as you normally would on any other day. You log into your account and make your purchase per the norm. You are automatically entered into the sweepstakes without having to do anything else.
You also won't see any visual indication that you have the cookie for that session (they last for about a day) during your order. They won't give you any confirmation of the entries with the order either. That said, as long as you haven't disabled "cookies" in your browser (most don't know how to do this), you are getting the entries.
After the sweepstakes is over, they provide all the data to me and the sweepstakes admins by masking your identity. If you are a finalist, then we get to learn your name. This way, everyone's privacy is protected, and they aren't sharing tons of names with me or the sweepstakes admins needlessly.
I hope this helps you understand how things work. Thanks again for your support!
@@DirtBikeChannel Thanks for the explanation!!
All about trying to make the all mighty dollar, sponsors etc.
Your riding content sucks!! I don’t even think you actually ride very much, Maybe consider traveling like PNW enduro does and actually go ride and film content.
ya missed the golden years of the content man. life has been rocky for Kyle this past couple years... just be happy he has not quit the channel. who else has given away bikes every three months for ten years?... oh that's right, no one.
@ I have been watching him since he started, I like the channel but how can people take him serious on product reviews and bike reviews when he hardly rides and films content on riding.
@@Dirtbeaver well i'm happy way more people tune in to get your channel's excellent and positive content... what is it then, half a million subs you have?
i need this bike.
Kyle, what will it take for you to go riding with me. Riding with you is a dream of mine bro!
👍 Thanks Kyle ! 🙂
Have a few tuber friends who do car channels. 250-500k subs. The add revenue isn’t what it used to be. Or all the other hoops they want channels to jump through.
Magic Sponge will clean those white plastics without scratching
My wife told me no more tshirts. 😂. Now I'm just going to buy $5 digital downloads every time of how to set up bikes so I can supper you!
Yeah I'd love to win that bike. Maybe my air pump and pdf file will be lucky for the old guy dirt bike loving cancer survivor
I hope so. Thank you for the support!
Dang, wish I knew I could buy anything isi g your link from RMATV. I just bought a few hundred dollars worth of stuff.
Anyhow, good luck to everyone in the drawing!!!
T-Shirt order in 🫡
I would enter if Canada could win!
I really appreciate your support and wanting to enter the sweepstakes. The issue with International entries is two fold, but mostly it is politics, border export fees, taxes, and red tape.
1. The shipping of the merchandise is very expensive. Based off of my channel demographics, Australia, and Canada would make the most sense to open up international shipping to after the USA market. With my fulfillment company, it will cost me $55-$65 per shirt/item. Some items are even more. I did a trial run on Canadian orders in Late 2019, people were not willing to pay that much. I actually tested shipping shirts to Canada in late 2019 and had less than 10 orders. I ended up losing money on those orders as far as I could tell. Many of them got stuck in customs and I spend a ton of time trying to get them out.
2. Awarding a valuable prize across international borders is a nightmare than my accountant and attorneys tell me I won’t be able to do. Even a large company like Rocky Mountain ATV/MC (multi-million dollar company near me) nearly "lost their shirts" on awarding a dirt bike to a Canadian Resident in 2018 during its sweepstakes connected to the Fantasy Super-cross they put on. It took them (with multiple full time employees) the better part of a year to navigate the red tape in getting the bike across the border (which ultimately failed) as a prize. I have even spoken to the winner of that sweepstakes multiple times (Canadian Resident) because he reached out to me with questions about what he should do, and he has validated the MASSIVE headache it was to get that bike awarded to him, due to the international border crossing. In the end, the bike could not be approved to cross the US/Canadian border, so Rocky Mountain ATV had to strip the parts they installed off their grand prize dirt bike, buy another dirt bike in Canada from a Canadian Dealer, ship the parts/upgraded items over the border, and then install all the parts on the second bike. It was an astronomical headache. It was a massive undertaking that I simply can’t get involved with. I don’t have the resources for it, and it would sink my small enterprise.
I hope that helps shed some light on why I can only offer this to residents of the USA. Thank you for understanding.
I live in California so pretty much every modern 2T you give away is useless to me, lol.
Im also here for the content, not give aways
Haha! I'm sorry. Many of the people in CA are great. The politics aren't. Its the least free state in the USA. I couldn't live there. I've had family there for the past 20 years and I can't believe the BS restrictions. The sweepstakes are a huge part of the Funding for the channel, since I don't take money from the OEMs or industry.
Man the economy sucks right now everybody's struggling it's just one of those things I've been self-employed for 30 freaking years it's a bad winter it'll get better
I really hope I win cuz I can’t afford one at all but love you Kyle and ur videos and hopefully you can do more of these
If KTM /Husky go out of business maybe Kyle can review some other bikes for a change. The channel lost me a long time ago. Most people cant drop 13 k on a new bike every year.
Hope I win, lmao. I’ve commented on everything I saw on fb. And ordered some stuff on the website.
Maybe just time to giveaway a different brand, KTM group reputation is bad… really bad. I bet if you put up a Kawi, it would cost you less and more people would be motivated to enter. Kawi has figured out a formula to make great production bikes at a good price.
Husky 501 next
Keep,m coming!!
Let it be me
Fingers crossed
Placed one hope i win
Sign of the time but with Trump in it should be turning around
haha! One can hope!
it's gonna get better. just give it time.
What is it such a pity party in here all the time?
Hope I win, lmao. I’ve commented on everything I saw on fb. And ordered some stuff on the website.